| Receiving Love | | | | myself." When you begin thanking the people who've |
| If you've received love from your parents, it's a major | | | | shaped your life in so many ways, you begin to live on |
| blessing. But when children don't feel it, they can be | | | | another "octave" of life - a higher octave, and you |
| affected in countless ways for their entire lives. This | | | | vibrate from a place of gratitude, which is a place of |
| can even affect peoples' ability to feel the love of | | | | high vibration. What can you thank the people in your |
| God. Barack Obama always talks of the love he | | | | life for? |
| received from his mother, that she was an outstanding, | | | | Bringing it All into the Present Moment |
| loving and compassionate person. Even though he | | | | The spiritual teacher, Meister Eckhart said, "If the only |
| didn't have a father who was present for most of his | | | | prayer you say in your entire life is 'thank you' that |
| life, the love was present. Abraham Lincoln said that | | | | would suffice." The yogi I mentioned earlier named |
| everything he learned was from his "angel Mother." | | | | Nandhi suggests that you bring your palms to your |
| | | | face when you get up in the morning, and you imagine |
| But what if you don't feel this love from a parent or | | | | that your left palm represents your mother and the |
| either of them? What if your experience was quite the | | | | right, your father. You place both hands over your |
| opposite of Obama's or Lincoln's? You can begin to | | | | eyelids and say, "Gratitude, gratitude." This can burn off |
| re-shape this in yourself by saying "thank you." That's | | | | negative karma with your parents. You bring |
| what the yogi said can burn your karma and set you | | | | everything into the present moment and bring forth |
| on a more loving path. You can find something to say | | | | unconditional love. That's always a good thing. |
| thank you for if it isn't immediately apparent. I once | | | | There might be many more steps needed to heal and |
| heard someone say this: "I thank my mother and | | | | transform the past, and for you it might be a deeper |
| father for never being there when I really needed | | | | journey. This "gratitude approach" is among the most |
| them, because I found that what I really needed was | | | | effective. |